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Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2) QUOTES

Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2) QUOTES

1 " It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It's like...time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

2 " I’d rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end… "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

3 " Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

4 " It's easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we're doing something. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

5 " Manhattan was a no-man's land, empty, an unofficial demilitarized zone between Partials and the human survivors. No one was supposed to be here, not because it was forbidden but because it was dangerous. If something happened to you out here, either side could get you, and neither side could protect you. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

6 " The books in the library were old, rotted, and there was no one left in the world to read them, but Kira made sure that none of them went into the fire. It seemed wrong. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

7 " Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

8 " They buried him in dirt that smelled like broken batteries, and crouched in a fiberglass shed while the acid rain poured down to dissolve his flesh and bleach his bones. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

9 " It's not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That's how we're built, that's how every Partial is wired - to follow orders and trust in our leaders - but it's not enough. It never has been. We've followed our leaders, and sometimes they win and sometimes they lose; we do what they say and we play our part. But this is our decision. Our mission. And when we're done, it will be our victory, or our defeat. I don't want to fail, but if I do, I want to be able to look back and say, 'I did that. I failed. That was all me. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

10 " Enough about body language," said Kira. "I want to practice the link so hit me."
"Hitting you won't make the link easier to detect."
"It's an expression," said Kira. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

11 " A plaque at the door congratulated her for climbing 1,860 individual stairs, and she nodded as she caught her breath. "Just my luck," she gasped. "I'm going to have the best glutes left in the planet, and there nobody here to see them. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

12 " I chose to follow you," he said, and his voice was deep and rich. "And I'll find you again. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

13 " You don't get a life until you make one worth living. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

14 " If you have the strength to whine, you have the strength to do something about it. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

15 " None of this is by accident, and we have to figure out what it all means. She paused. We have to. It's the same old argument I used to have with Mkele: the present or the future. Sometimes you have to put the present through hell to get the future you want. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

16 " I’ve picked a side,” she said darkly. “And everyone’s on it. And that’s exactly who I’m going to save. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

17 " It's not that," said Samm, "it's just... I used to think the world was worse for what we've done, both our species, but out here I don't think the world even cares who we are. Or were. We came and went, and life goes on, and the land that was always here before us will still be here after we're dead and gone. Birds will still fly. Rain will still fall. The world didn't end, it just... reset. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

18 " This is the story of the end of the world, the rise and fall of human civilization, the creation of the Partials and the death of everything else. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

19 " I’m sorry,” he said again. “I think I’m in love. . . .” He paused. “I don’t think she even knows. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

20 " It’s like . . . time is flowing backward. We’re caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future. "

― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)